Quotes of: Bribes Keyword

There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let them run it, then. Don't you give them ammunition.'

Adele

There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.

Wang Jianlin

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

Thomas Gray

For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.

Timothy Noah

During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

Imran Khan

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Bribe Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice.

Caravan of Dreams

Bricks could be used to build stronger relationships. But so could bribes.

The Brick and Blanket Divergence Test

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

John Webster

In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

Shaffi Mather

An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.

Criss Jami

I've never bribed my way into a restaurant. I've never slipped a C-note or greased a palm. In truth, I've never even considered it. I've assumed, of course, that people do such things.

David Chang

[to Lynn] Bud White: Don't ever try to fucking bribe me or I'll have you and Patchett in shit up to your ears.

L.A. Confidential

Rameses: [to Dathan, as he bribes Rameses] Do you haggle with me like a seller of melons in the marketplace?

The Ten Commandments

Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?

Marsilio Ficino

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

I Am David

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

The Orphan Master's Son

The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.

Mian Muhammad Mansha

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign offici...

John Edwards

Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes ...

James Surowiecki

I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.

Evan Hunter

Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

Gary North